Course readings

Course Texts:

Cohen, Daniel, J. and Rosenzweig, Roy. Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Also available online at http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/.

Hayes, Samuel P. The Response to Industrialism: 1885-1914. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2nd ed., 1995.

Week 8 Readings:

DiCuirci & Hardy (2016). Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print: AAS Collections meet DH Pedagogy. Past is Present: The American Antiquarian Society Blog. Retrieved from http://pastispresent.org/2016/digital-humanities-2/mill-girls-in-nineteenth-century-print/
K. Sklar & T. Dublin (2013). Creating Meaning in a Sea of Information: The Women and Social Movements Web Sites. In K. Nawrotzki & J. Dougherty (Eds.). Writing History in the Digital Age. Retrieved from http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dh/12230987.0001.001/1:7/–writing-history-in-the-digital-age?g=dculture;rgn=div1;view=fulltext;xc=1#7.2
A. Cummings & J. Jarrett (2013). Only Typing? Informal Writing, Blogging, and the Academy (2013). In K. Nawrotzki & J. Dougherty (Eds.). Writing History in the Digital Age. Retrieved from http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dh/12230987.0001.001/1:10/–writing-history-in-the-digital-age?g=dculture;rgn=div1;view=fulltext;xc=1#10.2

Week 4 Readings:

February 2: Hays – Chapters 2 – 6.
February 4: Hays – Chapters 7 – Conclusion.

Week 3 Readings:

January 26: Chapter from Licht; Hays Intro – Chapter 1.
- For access to the Licht chapter click here: Industrializing America_The Nineteenth Century
January 28: ~~Hayes Chapters 2 – 6.~~

Week 2 Optional Readings:

Digitizing the “mirror with a memory” – Brown University. (aka digitizing a daguerreotype) http://library.brown.edu/dps/curio/digitizing-the-mirror-with-a-memory/

Digital Copyright Slider: http://librarycopyright.net/resources/digitalslider/

Digitization Best Practices:

Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) – Guidelines: Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials (2010) http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/guidelines/FADGI_Still_Image-Tech_Guidelines_2010-08-24.pdf
BCR’s CDP Digital Imaging Best Practices Version 2.0 (2008) http://mwdl.org/docs/digital-imaging-bp_2.0.pdf

Week 1 Readings:

Readings due Thursday, January 14

Cohen and Rosenzweig, Introduction. Can be found online at http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/

Spellman, Bill “Digital Scholarship at a Distance” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-spellman/digital-scholarship-at-a-_b_5755010.html